| re: they Need as many ideas as possible. | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 01:25 pm EDT 06/05/18 | |
| In reply to: they Need as many ideas as possible. - dramedy 11:06 am EDT 06/05/18 | |
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| I really want them to have a character named Cecile. Because when "Our Lips Are Sealed" first came out when I was in high school, I really did think the title lyric was "I love Cecile." ;-) I understand that it is based on an Elizabethan play, but you already took it out of the time period with the music. I do want to debate you on this, though. A good many shows have scores that don't match the actual time period of the show. Many of them are classics we revere. We may tend not to think about it so much because if a show has a "classic musical theatre"-sounding score, we accept that as part of the genre and don't really question it. You may be more "thrown" by the disparity of the 80's rock sound with the Elizabethan setting lol, but what about the Webber/Rice shows in that same regard? After all, Israel in 4BC had no electric guitars, let alone mass communication. Nor were they around in those Canaan days. And Eva Peron's contemporaries wouldn't have recognized the musical sound world Webber put them in. But we don't really complain about those disparities - in fact, we tend to embrace them. But then, neither does Oklahoma! sound at all like the turn of the century rural music that would truly match the story's time and place. Even though Rodgers tried to add in some country-ish pastiche here and there. It's very much a continuation of the more cultured European-based operetta/musical theatre sound (with a bit of vaudeville for comic touch) that had been developing since the 1920's - certainly not anachronistic to musicals of the time, but quite anachronistic to the actual setting. But we never complain... (nor should we, of course.) And in terms of Elizbethan era - what about all the musicals and operas based on Shakesperare plays that don't sound the slightest bit "period"? Even if we accept a more "classical" sound (in both opera and musicals) as a given, the sound is still quite anachronistic. Let alone the rock/salsa world of Two Gentleman Of Verona or Ades' very 21st century score for The Tempest. So, by all means, dislike the Go-Go's show on its own terms. But don't blame it for something that's actually a very normal aspect of musicals. ;-) |
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